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Acumen and Grameen Foundation Study Poverty Rates and Impact of Ziqitza Health Care Limited

Mumbai, India, Sept. 10, 2014 – Acumen, a leading social impact investor addressing poverty across Africa and South Asia, together with Grameen Foundation India recently partnered to better understand caller poverty levels for Ziqitza Health Care Limited, an Acumen investee providing emergency ambulance services in India. The study was funded

Acumen and Grameen Foundation’s Ziqitza Study is selected as the Editor’s choice report for the “Practitioner’s hub for Inclusive Business”

A groundbreaking report assessing patients who use ZHL emergency ambulance service in India is now public. Whether you work in health, stoves, fertiliser or anything else, this report has relevance, because it demonstrates how to understand more about who your clients are, how low income segments they are, how many

GFI explores a User-Centered Design approach to Product Development in Microfinance

The Indian microfinance sector has long been criticized for following a one-size-fits-all approach to products and significantly under-investing in innovation. The primary reason for this is a perception that product customization for the low income segments is a cost, rather than a strategic investment. Similar concerns have been raised about

The Karnataka Poverty Outreach Report

Titled ‘A Poverty Lens on Financial Inclusion’, this report is an initiative of Grameen Foundation India in partnership with EDA to understand the poverty profile of microfinance clients in the state of Karnataka, with an aim to get better insights and an understanding of the outreach of microfinance in the

Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review

Acumen and Grameen Foundation recently used the PPI to study the poverty profile of clients of Ziqitza Health Care Ltd, a social enterprise providing emergency ambulance services, and better understand what factors might drive its outreach to the low income segments. The study has been featured in this blog on

Microfinance Institutions as Business Correspondents Change Management

In recent announcements, the government of India has unveiled ambitious financial inclusion plans of which the Business Correspondent (BC) model is a key piece. Over the next several weeks, Grameen Foundation India (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grameen Foundation) will post a series of blogs that discuss this model and how